I got a troll zotted yesterday, then all of a sudden this morning I get the following email (to the email address attached to my FR profile) from "Organizing for Action" (rapid pro-Obama group):

Hi --

Thanks for saying youre in for the next phase of our grassroots movement.

Im excited to get the chance to work with you as we set out to finish what we started.

Over the next four years, weve got an incredible opportunity to keep moving this country forward. This grassroots movement has shown time and again that ordinary people have the power to change our country if we work together to do it.

Stay on their list. It might be useful to see what the cretins are up to. Maybe you can forward some of them to the GOP...they need all the help they can get these days. Those clowns are getting gobsmacked by the lefties every time they turn around...maybe they can glean some tactics that the left are successfully using. God knows they haven’t been able to come up with any on their own.

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posted on 02/28/2013 6:52:16 AM PST
by pgkdan
( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)

In Internet slang, a troll is a troublemaker, prankster or insincere poster on a message board--sort of like a "seminar caller" on talk radio stations. "Zot," which is the acronnym for "zoned-out troll," is a term that is probably unique to Free Republic.

Rule # 1 for infiltrators: NEVER use your REAL email address, get an expendable one. Currently I use Fastmail.fm and if they “zot” you, just go to an alternate you should establish ahead of time. When you`ve been zotted out of all the pertinent sites as that avatar, just deleate it and use the newbie, till you get zotted out on that-then repeat! Its fun using up a nearly zotted out avatar to heckle the loser lefties on their sites, drives`em nuts! Not a far trip for liberals, either.

FreeRepublic.com uses google-analytics and Facebook; and both of those organizations’ politics beg the question of how they pass along your information.

FreeRepublic.com - “mail” - is NOT secure, nor are the FreeRepublic.com webpages; they are ALL “clear text” across the Internet.

The owners and managers of FreeRepublic.com are nearly sphynx-like, in their reporting of the FreeRepublic.com servers’ status in regard to when, if ever, penetration testing occurs. Which testing, should be run weekly in the case of FreeRepublic.com.

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posted on 02/28/2013 7:13:47 AM PST
by First_Salute
(May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)

Just delete your “Contact” email and get a junk email addy. I deleted mine a long time ago. I’d like to put it back now since I retired and they would get back a message that the email address no longer exists.

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posted on 02/28/2013 7:26:03 AM PST
by Arrowhead1952
(Dims are stupid, period. End of conversation.)

AH, thats your mistake. If you don`t want potential trolls getting your email then don`t post one, or use a disposable one. As I mentioned, fastmail.fm is a pretty good site and I`ve used up lots of avatars thru them. Obviously you zotted a fairly influential pin-head at that commie site, they want to lure you into some trap. Just ignore them, they probably want your IP address.

Best to heckle from a distance, those people are NOT my fellow citizens, they`re the enemy of all I believe in and I wouldn`t trust`em with my dirty work socks! In this “brave new world” of Obozo`s circus, trust is best earned, and only grudgingly at that! Take care and BE CAREFUL!

How do you change what is seen when replying to group posts on yahoo groups? Right now, my real name and address are seen when I respond to group posts...I would rather it show something less personal. Anyone able to help me with how to change what is seen in this circumstance?

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posted on 02/28/2013 3:33:11 PM PST
by trussell
(I carry because...When seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away)

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